Chinese Culture Blog

OK, this is too hilarious. We all know that China is the capital of designer fakes and copycats (and Chinatowns the world over their enthusiastic colonies). Well, as Hollywood movie ... Read More

The New York Times correspondent, Howard French, has a piece in the Financial Times which takes a look at China's quest for "soft power": influence measured in "hearts and minds" ... Read More

新年好, 新春快乐! Happy New Year everyone! This is my first lunar New Year ever spent in Beijing, and I have to say I've never seen anything like this in my ... Read More

And He Looks Like a Gangsta Rapster! Danwei has a photograph of Kim Jong Il's "flamboyant eldest son" taken during his recent visit to China. - By Jennifer Brea, World News ... Read More

A man in Liaoning province has been sentenced to death for scamming people out of millions of dollars in a scheme to breed ants to make wine, tea and medical ... Read More

Oh, oh the Chinese and their love of face...A brown mountain in one town in Yunnan was an eyesore. Its bad feng shui was also impacting the fortunes of ... Read More

It's probably a universal human truth that the rich live by different rules. At least this is the case in China, where more and more of the rich and ... Read More

A recent survey of sexual behavior which asked questions about everything from pornography to wife-swapping reveals that whatever their overt sexual conservativism, in the bedroom, Chinese behave much the way ... Read More

Two suicides by train in three weeks has me wondering whether Shanghai isn't going the way of Tokyo, that other Asian metropolis where suicide is a grudingly-accepted epidemic. In a post ... Read More